Augusta City Housing Authority

The South Turpin Hill Revitalization Plan provides a blueprint for revitalizing the historic South Turpin Hill neighborhood in Augusta, GA. The plan's primary goals include encouraging new quality mixed-income housing, preserving historic single-family housing, retaining legacy homeowners, attracting new investment and businesses, improving community infrastructure, and promoting the community's history and heritage. Key strategies involve infill residential development, mid-rise residential infill, redevelopment of Dogwood Terrace for affordable housing, establishing a Community Land Trust, supporting legacy residents through property tax relief and home repair funds, attracting neighborhood businesses, improving bus stops, creating a stormwater park, enhancing sidewalks, and developing neighborhood identity elements. The overall vision is to create a strong, vibrant, safe, walkable, and mixed-use community for all residents.

This document outlines the Augusta Housing Authority's 5-Year/Annual Plans for 2020-2024, with a core mission to promote adequate and affordable housing, economic opportunity, and a suitable living environment free from discrimination. The strategic pillars include increasing the availability and quality of decent, safe, and affordable housing, improving community quality of life and economic vitality, promoting self-sufficiency and asset development for families and individuals, and ensuring equal opportunity in housing for all Americans. The plan details strategies for addressing housing needs, managing financial resources, and outlines proposed modernization and capital improvement projects to achieve these objectives.

The Augusta Housing Authority's 5-Year/Annual Plans outline its mission to promote adequate and affordable housing, economic opportunity, and a suitable living environment free from discrimination. The strategic goals focus on increasing the availability and quality of decent, safe, and affordable housing, improving community quality of life and economic vitality, promoting self-sufficiency and asset development for families and individuals, and ensuring equal opportunity in housing for all Americans. Strategies include maximizing affordable units, targeting assistance to specific income levels and family types, and addressing housing needs for various races and ethnicities.